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Members of the 53rd Legislature (1953) View roster for another session:

Chamber	Member	District	Service				City	County
S	A.M. Aikin, Jr.	1	S H	1937 - 1979 1933 - 1937	45th - 65th 43rd - 44th	D D	Paris	Lamar
S	Carlos C. Ashley, Sr.	16	S	1949 - 1959	51st - 55th	D	Llano	Llano
S	John Junior Bell	18	S H	1947 - 1954 1937 - 1947	50th - 53rd 45th - 50th	D D	Cuero	DeWitt
S	J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr.	6	S H	1949 - 1959 1947 - 1949	51st - 55th 50th	D D	Houston	Harris
S	Neveille Colson	5	S H	1949 - 1967 1939 - 1949	51st - 59th 46th - 50th	D D	Navasota	Grimes
S	Kilmer B. Corbin, Sr.	28	S	1949 - 1957	51st - 54th	D	Lamesa	Dawson
S	William S. Fly	18	S H	1954 - 1961 1947 - 1953	53rd - 56th 50th - 52nd	D D	Victoria	Victoria
S	Jep Fuller	4	S	1951 - 1963	52nd - 57th	D	Port Arthur	Jefferson
S	Dorsey B. Hardeman	25	S H	1947 - 1969 1939 - 1942	50th - 60th 46th - 47th	D D	San Angelo	Tom Green
S	Grady Hazlewood	31	S	1941 - 1971	47th - 61st	D	Amarillo	Potter
S	Abraham "Chick" Kazen F	21	S H	1953 - 1967 1947 - 1953	53rd - 59th 50th - 52nd	D D	Laredo	Webb
S	Rogers Kelley	27	S	1939 - 1957	46th - 54th	D	Edinburg	Hidalgo
S	Wardlow Lane	2	S	1943 - 1963	48th - 57th	D	Center	Shelby
S	Oswald Latimer F	26	S H	1953 - 1957 1947 - 1953	53rd - 54th 50th - 52nd	D D	San Antonio	Bexar
S	Ottis E. Lock	3	S H	1949 - 1959 1938 - 1949	51st - 55th 45th - 50th	D D	Lufkin	Angelina
S	Crawford Martin	12	S	1949 - 1963	51st - 57th	D	Hillsboro	Hill
S	Warren McDonald	7	S	1949 - 1957	51st - 54th	D	Tyler	Smith
S	George Moffett	23	S H	1939 - 1965 1931 - 1939	46th - 58th 42nd - 45th	D D	Chillicothe	Hardeman
S	W. T. "Bill" Moore	11	S H	1949 - 1981 1947 - 1949	51st - 66th 50th	D D	Bryan	Brazos
S	George Parkhouse	8	S H H	1951 - 1967 1943 - 1951 1933 - 1935	52nd - 60th 48th - 51st 43rd	D D D	Dallas	Dallas
S	Jimmy Phillips	17	S H	1947 - 1959 1941 - 1945	50th - 56th 47th - 48th	D D	Angleton	Brazoria
S	Andrew J. "Andy" Rogers F	30	S H	1953 - 1967 1949 - 1953	53rd - 59th 51st - 52nd	D D	Childress	Childress
S	Johnnie B. Rogers F	14	S H	1953 - 1957 1949 - 1953	53rd - 54th 51st - 52nd	D D	Austin	Travis
S	Joe Russell	9	S	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Royse City	Rockwall
S	James T. Rutherford F	29	S H	1953 - 1954 1949 - 1953	53rd 51st - 52nd	D D	Odessa	Ector
S	Harley Sadler F	24	S H H	1953 - 1954 1951 - 1953 1943 - 1949	53rd 52nd 48th - 50th	D D D	Abilene	Taylor
S	Jarrard Secrest F	13	S	1953 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Temple	Bell
S	William H. Shireman F	20	S	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Corpus Christi	Nueces
S	Gus J. Strauss	15	S	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Hallettsville	Lavaca
S	Wayne W. Wagonseller	22	S H	1951 - 1955 1947 - 1951	52nd - 54th 50th - 51st	D D	Bowie	Montague
S	Rudolph Weinert	19	S	1936 - 1963	44th - 57th	D	Seguin	Guadalupe
S	Doyle Willis F	10	H H S H	1973 - 1997 1969 - 1971 1953 - 1963 1947 - 1953	63rd - 74th 61st 53rd - 57th 50th - 52nd	D D D D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	William Henry Abington	60-2	H	1947 - 1953	50th - 53rd	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	William W. "Bill" Allen F	80	H	1953 - 1955	53rd - 54th	D	Laredo	Webb
H	Mack Allison	75	H H	1953 - 1957 1941 - 1947	53rd - 54th 47th - 49th	D D	Mineral Wells	Palo Pinto
H	Bill R. Andis F	94	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Amarillo	Potter
H	Lemuel L. Armor F	91	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Sweetwater	Nolan
H	Ben Atwell	51-2	H	1951 - 1975	52nd - 63rd	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Robert W. Baker F	22-4	S H	1959 - 1963 1953 - 1959	56th - 57th 53rd - 55th	D D	Houston	Harris
H	Clinton Stanley Banks, Jr.	68-3	H	1951 - 1957	52nd - 54th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Garth C. Bates F	22-8	H	1953 - 1956	53rd - 54th	D	Houston	Harris
H	James Bates F	38-2	S H H	1963 - 1973 1959 - 1961 1953 - 1955	58th - 62nd 56th 53rd	D D D	Edinburg	Hidalgo
H	Marshall O. Bell	68-4	H	1943 - 1961	48th - 57th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Douglas Ernest Bergman	51-7	H H	1953 - 1957 1949 - 1951	53rd - 54th 51st	D D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Edgar Lee Berlin	9-2	H	1951 - 1957	52nd - 54th	D	Port Neches	Jefferson
H	George S. Berry F	97-2	H	1953 - 1955	53rd - 54th	D	Lubbock	Lubbock
H	A. J. Bishop, Jr. F	77	H	1953 - 1961	53rd - 56th	D	Winters	Runnels
H	Anita Blair F	105-4	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	El Paso	El Paso
H	Floyd Francis Bradshaw	72	S H	1957 - 1961 1949 - 1957	55th - 56th 51st - 54th	D D	Weatherford	Parker
H	Dolph Briscoe, Jr.	79	H	1949 - 1957	51st - 54th	D	Uvalde	Uvalde
H	J. Gordon "Obie" Bristow F	101	H	1953 - 1961	53rd - 56th	D	Big Spring	Howard
H	Phil Brooks	3	H	1949 - 1953	51st - 53rd	D	Bagwell	Red River
H	Hulon Brown F	102	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Midland	Midland
H	Jack C. Bryan, Sr.	43	H	1949 - 1959	51st - 55th	D	Buffalo	Leon
H	Dexter Buchanan	13	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Longview	Gregg
H	Joseph Burkett F	78	H	1951 - 1961	52nd - 56th	D	Kerrville	Kerr
H	Omar Burkett	76	H H	1953 - 1955 1939 - 1945	53rd 46th - 48th	D D	Cisco	Eastland
H	Jim Carmichall F	54	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Blum	Hill
H	Frank H. Carpenter F	19	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Sour Lake	Hardin
H	Waggoner Carr	97-1	H	1951 - 1961	52nd - 56th	D	Lubbock	Lubbock
H	Ellis D. Carter F	8	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Orange	Orange
H	Stanley Caufield F	105-2	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	El Paso	El Paso
H	William Chambers	73	H H	1949 - 1957 1939 - 1947	51st - 54th 46th - 49th	D D	May	Brown
H	Joe Chapman F	11	H	1953 - 1965	53rd - 59th	D	Sulphur Springs	Hopkins
H	Tom Cheatham	34	H	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Cuero	DeWitt
H	Jamie Clements F	28	H H	1959 - 1960 1953 - 1957	56th 53rd - 54th	D D	Crockett	Houston
H	Carroll Cobb F	99	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Seminole	Gaines
H	Morris G. Cobb	93	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Amarillo	Potter
H	Warren C. "Red" Cowen	60-7	H H	1953 - 1963 1947 - 1949	53rd - 57th 50th	D D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Frank H. Crain, Jr. F	33	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Victoria	Victoria
H	Elias F. Crim F	16	H	1953 - 1956	53rd - 54th	D	Henderson	Rusk
H	John L. Crosthwait	51-1	H H	1945 - 1961 1941 - 1943	49th - 56th 47th	D D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Doug Crouch	59	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Denton	Denton
H	William "Bill" Daniel	20	H	1949 - 1955	51st - 53rd	D	Liberty	Liberty
H	Eligio de la Garza F	38-3	H	1953 - 1965	53rd - 58th	D	Mission	Hidalgo
H	B. H. Dewey F	44	H	1953 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Bryan	Brazos
H	Dudley T. Dougherty F	58	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Beeville	Bee
H	A. D. Downer F	5	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Center	Shelby
H	Virginia Duff	52	H	1951 - 1963	52nd - 57th	D	Ferris	Ellis
H	William J. Ehlert	45	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Brenham	Washington
H	William M. Elliott F	22-2	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Pasadena	Harris
H	Anthony Fenoglio	71	H	1951 - 1961	52nd - 56th	D	Nocona	Montague
H	Jack Fisk	31	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Wharton	Wharton
H	Curtis Ford, Jr. F	36-2	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Corpus Christi	Nueces
H	George D. Ford F	3	H	1954 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Bogata	Red River
H	Gustin "Gus" Garrett F	40	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Raymondville	Willacy
H	Gabe Garrett	36-1	H	1951 - 1954	52nd - 53rd	D	Corpus Christi	Nueces
H	James O. Gillham F	98	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Brownfield	Terry
H	W. W. Glass	17	H H	1953 - 1963 1933 - 1937	53rd - 57th 43rd - 44th	D D	Jacksonville	Cherokee
H	Ben Glusing F	37	H	1953 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Kingsville	Kleberg
H	Jessy F. Gray	69	H H	1949 - 1955 1945 - 1947	51st - 53rd 49th	D D	Three Rivers	Live Oak
H	Dorothy Gillis Gurley	100	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Del Rio	Val Verde
H	L. DeWitt Hale	36-3	H H H	1965 - 1978 1953 - 1963 1939 - 1940	59th - 65th 53rd - 57th 46th	D D D	Corpus Christi	Nueces
H	Bert Hall	61	H	1951 - 1953	52nd - 53rd	D	Rio Vista	Johnson
H	Charles A. Hancock F	6	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Nacogdoches	Nacogdoches
H	Guy Hazlett F	86	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Borger	Hutchinson
H	Herman A. Heideke	67	H H	1947 - 1957 1919 - 1921	50th - 54th 36th	D R	Seguin	Guadalupe
H	Bill "Jitterbug" Henderson F	22-7	H	1953 - 1954	53rd	D	Houston	Harris
H	Jack Hightower F	82	S H	1965 - 1975 1953 - 1955	59th - 63rd 53rd	D D	Vernon	Wilbarger
H	Paul F. Hill	14	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Tyler	Smith
H	George Hinson	12	H H	1959 - 1971 1951 - 1955	56th - 61st 52nd - 53rd	D D	Mineola	Wood
H	Grady C. Hogue F	26	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Martins Mill	Van Zandt
H	Horace Ben Houston, Jr.	51-3	H H	1963 - 1965 1951 - 1957	58th 52nd - 54th	R D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Reagan Huffman	4	H	1951 - 1961	52nd - 56th	D	Marshall	Harrison
H	Charles Hughes	48	H	1951 - 1963	52nd - 57th	D	Sherman	Grayson
H	Henry A. "Salty" Hull	60-4	H H H	1949 - 1954 1943 - 1947 1937 - 1941	51st - 53rd 48th - 49th 45th - 46th	D D D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Edgar Hutchins, Jr. F	25	H	1951 - 1961	52nd - 56th	D	Greenville	Hunt
H	Maud Isaacks F	105-1	H	1954 - 1967	53rd - 59th	D	El Paso	El Paso
H	Samuel Isaacks	105-1	H H	1939 - 1954 1903 - 1905	46th - 53rd 28th	D D	El Paso	El Paso
H	James Horace Jackson F	2	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Atlanta	Cass
H	Pearce Johnson	65-1	H	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Austin	Travis
H	Obie Jones	65-2	H H	1953 - 1963 1947 - 1949	53rd - 57th 50th	D D	Austin	Travis
H	Thomas Joseph F	53-1	H	1951 - 1959	52nd - 55th	D	Waco	McLennan
H	Don Kennard F	60-3	S H	1963 - 1973 1953 - 1963	58th - 62nd 53rd - 57th	D D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	Joe Kilgore	38-1	H	1947 - 1955	50th - 53rd	D	McAllen	Hidalgo
H	John Kimbrough F	83	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Haskell	Haskell
H	Tom E. King F	51-6	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Charles D. Kirkham, Jr. F	61	H	1954 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Cleburne	Johnson
H	Wiltz Kirklin F	103	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Odessa	Ector
H	William Kugle, Jr. F	21-1	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Galveston	Galveston
H	Roy Truett Latimer F	84	H	1953 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Abilene	Taylor
H	Otis Lee	9-3	H H	1953 - 1957 1947 - 1951	53rd - 54th 50th - 51st	D D	Port Arthur	Jefferson
H	Henry G. Lehman	57	H	1937 - 1957	45th - 54th	D	Giddings	Lee
H	Charles J. Lieck, Jr. F	68-1	H H	1955 - 1957 1953 - 1955	54th 53rd	D GG	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Jim T. Lindsey	1-1	H	1949 - 1957	51st - 54th	D	Texarkana	Bowie
H	Maury Maverick	68-2	H	1951 - 1957	52nd - 54th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Bert T. McDaniel F	53-3	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Waco	McLennan
H	Grainger W. McIlhany	87	H	1949 - 1966	51st - 59th	D	Wheeler	Wheeler
H	William T. McNeil F	32	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Edna	Jackson
H	Fred V. Meridith	41	H	1950 - 1955	51st - 53rd	D	Terrell	Kaufman
H	William Andrew Miller, Jr.	22-5	H	1947 - 1954	50th - 53rd	D	Houston	Harris
H	Carlton Moore, Sr.	22-3	H	1943 - 1959	48th - 55th	D	Houston	Harris
H	Jim Moore F	60-2	H	1954 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Arlington	Tarrant
H	Jimmy R. Morris F	42	H	1953 - 1954	53rd	D	Corsicana	Navarro
H	Charles Alfred Murphy, Jr.	22-1	H H	1951 - 1955 1947 - 1949	52nd - 54th 50th	D D	Houston	Harris
H	Menton J. Murray	39-1	H	1949 - 1975	51st - 63rd	D	Harlingen	Cameron
H	Fredrick Niemann	47	H	1949 - 1957	51st - 54th	D	Austin	Travis
H	Jesse M. Osborn F	96	H	1953 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Muleshoe	Bailey
H	William E. Osborn	55	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Marlin	Falls
H	Frank Owen III	105-3	S H	1954 - 1965 1951 - 1954	53rd - 58th 52nd - 53rd	D D	El Paso	El Paso
H	Harold Parish F	35	H	1953 - 1961	53rd - 56th	D	Taft	San Patricio
H	Robert Patten F	7	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Jasper	Jasper
H	James Paxton	27	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Elkhart	Anderson
H	Gary Pinkney Pearson, Jr.	29	H	1949 - 1955	51st - 53rd	D	Navasota	Grimes
H	Wilbur W. Perry F	62	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Stephenville	Erath
H	Maurice S. Pipkin F	39-2	H	1953 - 1967	53rd - 60th	D	Brownsville	Cameron
H	Joe Pool F	51-5	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Joe Pyle	60-1	H	1947 - 1957	50th - 54th	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	David Ratliff	85	S H	1955 - 1972 1951 - 1954	54th - 62nd 52nd - 53rd	D D	Stamford	Jones
H	Elbert Reeves F	88	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Matador	Motley
H	William C. Ross, Sr.	9-1	H	1951 - 1957	52nd - 54th	D	Beaumont	Jefferson
H	Charles Sandahl F	65-3	H	1953 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Austin	Travis
H	Barefoot Sanders F	51-4	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Dallas	Dallas
H	Leroy Saul F	89	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Kress	Swisher
H	Scott Sayers F	60-5	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	O. H. Schram F	64	H	1954 - 1963	53rd - 57th	D	Taylor	Williamson
H	Harold Seay	21-2	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Galveston	Galveston
H	Frates Seeligson F	68-7	H	1953 - 1961	53rd - 56th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Sam C. Sellers	53-2	H H	1953 - 1955 1945 - 1949	53rd 49th - 50th	D D	Waco	McLennan
H	C. F. Sentell	90	H H	1953 - 1955 1917 - 1921	53rd 35th - 36th	D D	Snyder	Scurry
H	Reuben E. Senterfitt	74	H	1941 - 1955	47th - 53rd	D	San Saba	San Saba
H	Ed Sheridan F	68-5	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	Richard C. Slack F	104	H	1953 - 1981	53rd - 66th	D	Pecos	Reeves
H	Max C. Smith	66	H	1945 - 1961	49th - 56th	D	San Marcos	Hays
H	Gene Smith F	60-6	H	1953 - 1955	53rd - 54th	D	Fort Worth	Tarrant
H	William L. Smith	9-4	H H	1953 - 1972 1943 - 1947	53rd - 62nd 48th - 49th	D D	Beaumont	Jefferson
H	Rudolph B. Spacek	46	H	1941 - 1955	47th - 53rd	D	Fayetteville	Fayette
H	Gilbert M. Spring	18	H	1951 - 1957	52nd - 54th	D	Apple Springs	Trinity
H	Richard S. Stark F	49	H	1951 - 1954	52nd - 53rd	D	Gainesville	Cooke
H	Vernon Stewart F	81-1	H	1953 - 1973	53rd - 62nd	D	Wichita Falls	Wichita
H	Thomas H. Stilwell F	1-2	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Texarkana	Bowie
H	Stanton Stone F	23	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Freeport	Brazoria
H	R. L. Strickland F	68-6	H	1953 - 1961	53rd - 56th	D	San Antonio	Bexar
H	William A. "Bill" Stroman F	92	H	1951 - 1961	52nd - 56th	D	San Angelo	Tom Green
H	Frank G. Svadlenak	64	H	1943 - 1954	48th - 53rd	D	Thrall	Williamson
H	Reuben Talasek F	63-2	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Temple	Bell
H	Arnold J. Vale	70	H H	1949 - 1955 1937 - 1947	51st - 53rd 45th - 49th	D D	Rio Grande City	Starr
H	J. B. Walling F	81-2	H	1951 - 1959	52nd - 55th	D	Wichita Falls	Wichita
H	Jesse F. Ward	30	H H	1953 - 1957 1945 - 1949	53rd - 54th 49th - 50th	D D	Rosenberg	Fort Bend
H	John A. Warden	50	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	McKinney	Collin
H	Russell H. Weaver	10	H	1951 - 1955	52nd - 53rd	D	Paris	Lamar
H	Sam E. Wohlford F	95	H	1953 - 1959	53rd - 55th	D	Stratford	Sherman
H	Bill D. Wood	15	S H	1957 - 1961 1947 - 1957	55th - 56th 50th - 54th	D D	Tyler	Smith
H	Thomas Burr "Tibby" Wright F	24	H	1953 - 1955	53rd	D	Bonham	Fannin
H	James Watson Yancy, Jr. F	22-6	H	1953 - 1957	53rd - 54th	D	Houston	Harris
H	Herman Yezak	56	H	1945 - 1963	49th - 57th	D	Bremond	Robertson
H	Lamar A. Zivley	63-1	H	1947 - 1955	50th - 53rd	D	Temple	Bell

F indicates this was the first time that the member served in either a regular or called session.

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